December 2008 Archives

We're old enough to remember when Playboy playmates really did look like the girl next door. Nowadays, they look more like the hooker next door.

Where, oh where, are the fresh-faced coeds like Debbie Ellison (left), a college student from Boston who appeared as Miss September 1970.

OK, we know, the girl next door usually doesn't take her clothes off for Playboy magazine, at least not the girls who lived next door to us.  But Playboy was an object of fantasy for young men and back in the day the Playmates didn't look like girls who would demand money for the evening.

Those days, alas, are gone. Playmates now pose with their legs wide open in shot that would make a gynecologist blush. And nothing is left to the imagination since they are as hairless down there as they day they came out of their momma's womb.

They look more like porn stars than the girl next door, unless the girl next door is Jenna Jamison.

Warning to parents: Your teenage daughter may be sending nude or partially nude photos of herself to friends or even posting them on the Internet.

Reports Information Week:

One in five teen girls has sent a revealing photograph of themselves via cell phone or e-mail or posted nude or partially nude images of themselves online, according to a survey released this week.

Eleven percent of them are 16 or younger.

The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and CosmoGirl.com teamed up to survey 1,280 teens and young adults, ages 13 to 26, from Sept. 25 through Oct. 3. They released a 20-page report on their "Sex and Tech" (PDF) survey Wednesday.

"Teenagers are early adopters of technology -- from the latest social networking sites to the hottest new cell phones," Susan Schulz, special projects editor for Hearst Magazines, said in a statement. "While this tech savvy can be seen as a positive, our study reveals there's also a negative side. Teenagers should be aware of the real consequences to this type of behavior and we need to provide them with guidance and encourage them to make smart choices."

Twenty-one percent of girls and 18% of boys said they have posted nude or partially nude pictures of themselves online. Forty-nine percent of teens and young adults have sent sexually suggestive text messages or e-mails of themselves. Fifteen percent of teens who sent sexually suggestive content said they have done so with someone they only know online.

Two-thirds of teen girls who sent or posted sexually suggestive content said they did it to be fun or flirtatious. Fifty-two percent said they wanted to give a sexy present to their boyfriends, and 40% said they did it as a joke.

The survey found that the pictures get around. One-third of teen boys and one-fourth of teen boys said they have seen nude or partially nude photos because someone shared an image that the sender meant to keep private.

Leave it to Jennifer Aniston to find a way to make us forget all about the economy, the war and the general decline of a place called America.

The lovely Jennifer, attired only in a discreetly-placed tie, is gracing the current issue of GQ magazine and the former "Friends" star is looking good as ever.

She also has a few things to say about Angelinia Jolie, the sexpot who stole her husband, Brad Pitt.

Keep in mind that GQ isn't Playboy so we won't be seeing the goods in the photos that accompany the article inside but there's just enough cheesecake to keep the passions stirred.

You're looking good babe. Thanks for the diversion.

Emma Watson, the cute little thing who plays Hermione in the Harry Potter films, says she wouldn't mind baring all for the "right film" or the right director.

Watson tells the Sunday Times of London:

"I'm at a strange age," says Watson, wrinkling her brow and asking for an orange juice, which doesn't arrive. (She is simply too lovely to ask twice.) "I'm not a woman yet, but I'm not a girl any more. [Film companies] say, 'Oh, in a couple of years you'll be perfect for this.' I'll be like, yeah, but I want to be studying English then, so it's going to be quite tough to choose between the two."

"I have a really supportive family and a full life away from Harry Potter. It's unlikely that I'll be part of anything this big ever again, so I need to deal with that. I'm not going to take a job just because, shit, I'm not doing anything else." She still loves acting, naturally -- she would even, steady chaps, go nude. "Yes," she says. "For Bernardo Bertolucci. It . . . depends. I'm not getting my kit off any time soon, but it is part of my job."

If Emma takes her clothes off for her art she will join Harry Potter himself -- actor Daniel Radcliffe -- who let it all hang out on stage in Equus.

Marriage vows usually include the line: "'Till death do us part."  But death is supposed to be what tears your apart after you're married.

Scott Napper, 45 of Silverton, Oregon hoped to use a popular beach gathering place called Proposal Rock to formally ask 22-year-old Leafil Alforque for her hand in marriage.

It didn't quite work out that way. Reports OregonLive.Com:

The couple met through an Internet dating site in 2005 and had set a wedding date for Dec. 6. But Napper said Proposal Rock was the spot he wanted to ask for Alforque's hand in marriage ceremonially and give her the ring that waited in his pocket.

Alforque had arrived in Silverton just three days earlier on a fiancee visa from the Philippines. It was her first visit to the Oregon coast.

At some point during the walk to the rock, the two let go of each other's hands. From the angle they took walking toward the formation, Napper said, "you can't see the waves coming in."

About 10 feet from the rock, a wave 2- to 3-feet high suddenly came toward them.

"I turned into it to keep from getting pulled under it," he said. The water receded in a few seconds, and he turned to look for the diminutive Alforque, 4-foot-11 and 93 pounds. By then, he said, "She was about 30 feet away, getting swept away."

He said he immediately tore off his jacket to get rid of any extra weight, and when he looked up again she was gone.

"That's the last I saw of her," he said Wednesday, breaking into tears.

Some claim the judge in Las Vegas threw the book at O.J. Simpson by handing him a sentence ranging from 9-33 years for his role in breaking into a hotel room and retrieving memorabilia items he claimed were his.

Nah. He got off easy. The man who got away with offing his wife and an innocent bystander a decade ago is finally going to jail, which is where the murdering S.O.B. belonged all along.

O.J. the actor gave it one last try at avoiding the big house in his sentencing this week with a well-rehearsed plea to the judge that fell on deaf ears. He claimed he was sorry but the apology was hollow. He claimed he didn't know he was breaking the law. Using a gun to terrorize others and seize items that may or may not have been his isn't breaking the law?

Simpson's lawyers, of course, plan an appeal but such appeals seldom work. He's gone to jail.

Where he belongs.